Cyrus watched the various amounts of people leaving their vehicles and retreating behind the bus as the Rift was growing in size. Cyrus perked his ears up as he heard a helicopter was flying overhead. He saw that it was a news helicopter, reporting the new and expanding rift. While everyone was evacuating and running the opposite way, Cyrus ducked away off the road and equipped his jacket and summoned Visne and Vexxitiz. Visne chirped and looked at Cyrus happy to be out and stretch its wings. While Vexxitiz formed the same vailed hood.
The helicopter passed overhead but it didn't seem to notice them. Although he was starting to hear what the person was saying, "We have arrived at the scene and watching as a rift of immense size forming on downtown. Civilians have cleared the area before the rift had opened, but it is expanding quickly." A woman was saying while in the helicopter, passing over Cyrus' location. "We don't yet know if the corporations are on their way yet but we can only hope nothing comes through. If anything does, it could put the citizens of Departure in great danger."
Cyrus jumped onto Visne's back and issued a command for them to fly away from the rift then to turn around. He wanted to make it seem that the mysterious man was here to help. It was almost like he was a super hero from a comic or a movie. But his reason for even getting involved was to avoid the impact on innocent life. He wasn't about to turn away from someone in need of help, as well as to stop people from getting hurt.
Spreading its wings, Visne took to the sky and flew away from the site of the rift like Cyrus commanded. Visne didn't refuse nor object, it would follow any order Cyrus gave. After a good distance away, Visne rose to the sky and above the clouds. When they breached the cloud cover Visne tucked in its wings and spun back towards the rift's location. Spreading its wings back out and gliding down from the cloud layer, Cyrus could see the news helicopter coming into view. The rushing wind assaulting his face and ears wasn't pleasant, but he could catch enough of the words from the news lady.
"...That's not all Darell, it seems that mysterious figure from the incident at the Fenrir Operations Group has come to the rift. Malcom try to fly in close enough to get a good look at him." The helicopter started to fly towards Cyrus, approaching from his left. The whole while, Visne was gliding right for the rift. When the helicopter got within 15 meters of Visne as to not cause the creature to be hit by the blades or knock it out of the sky by the helicopter's downdraft.
The lady pulled out a megaphone, "Did you show up to close the rift?" She shouted into the device, "Do you intend to go in? Is there anyone that you work for? Who are you?" Cyrus was just continuously bombarded with her questions, not able to really answer any of them. The sound of the woman's voice was hurting his ears as she used the megaphone, making it very clear he was able to hear her.
Cyrus turned his head, the hood remained down even on the strong wind thanks to it being part of Vexxitiz's body. He just looked at her and then shouted back, "Stay back and away from the rift, wait for the other corporations to arrive." As Visne roared and dove into the rift, vanishing from the realm of Earth. The helicopter pulled up and moved away from the rift.
The lady turned back to the camera, "Well, seems like the mysterious figure has gone into the rift. We can only hope he is on our side, this Renegade has went into a rift without batting an eye, alone. We shall pull away and await for the corporations to respond. This has been Nadia Markeet, back to you Darell!"
The sound of the Rift echoed over the land as it had reached the limit to its size. Which consumed a quarter of a mile of road, cars, and buildings. As Cyrus had breached the edge of the rift, he found himself flying just above a forest canopy. Visne had angled them away from crashing into the expanse of trees. The rushing wind against his face had deafened him slightly as he had placed his hand on the side of Visne's neck.
"Let's land and get a lay of the area!" Cyrus called out, Visne huffed and scanned for a spot of open ground. It took a few minutes before they managed to locate a possible safe area to land but Cyrus was still on alert for any danger. When Visne spread their wings wide to slow its descent, allowing its hind legs to touch upon the grass and dirt.
Now placing the rest of its weight on its wings allowing Visne to balance and scan the area with its long neck. Not seeing or smelling anything within the area made Visne uneasy. Cyrus also felt that the vacant presence of life was not welcoming. Climbing off Visne Cyrus walked forward a bit to see if anything would enter his energy detection range. However nothing but the grass and insects were detected. The faint aura that came off them were so small it was almost impossible to notice.
However because of Cyrus' alert mind he took note of all that was around him. This also included the fact the system hadn't given him a notification of being in a special Rift or Tear. So safe to say that Cyrus was relatively safe in that regard. However, the sound of crashing trees could be heard in the distance. Something was moving forward and coming their way. Cyrus immediately went into building a strategy for intercepting the mysterious crashing.
Calling upon Vexxitiz's Shadow trap he placed it in his relative guess the thing would pass by if it continued its pathing. Cyrus told Visne to hide behind the tree line and make itself blend in. Lumbering over and wrapping its body across a tree not in direct line of where the crashing sound was coming from. Visne and Cyrus both hide away and waited for it to come towards them.
They had no idea what kind of creature it was and the best thing he could do was leave a trap for it and hope for the best. The crashing sounds were just beyond the line of trees in the clearing. As one tree fell into it Cyrus finally could see what it was. A massive almost dinosaur like creature, except it had a mouth that could open in four sections. Two tongues, many teeth, large arms, a large strong body. It looked like a slightly slimmer Tyrannosaurus Rex except for its strange features.
It roared, but it didn't sound like a roar from the movies that people create for the creatures. It sounded like a high pitched squeal from hundreds of birds. Cyrus covered his ears from the sound, but as it took another step forward Vexxitiz activated the trap. Black spike jutted out and pierced the hide of the creature, though it didn't go deep.
"That beast's hide is tougher than it looks. The shadows were only able to break through maybe a few inches." Vexxitiz said, the shadows moving away as the creature began to chase the amorphous shadow. It's eyes, which Cyrus saw four of them, one on each mouth segment. This creature was a strange beast and different from whatever he has faced before. Cyrus canceled the shadow trap allowing him to summon Er'Delrune and Grimm to his side.
"We need to take it down, quickly before others arrive. Grimm, aim for the wounds in its hide," Cyrus ordered, Grimm blinked and opened its pages. Gripping Er'Delrune, Cyrus ran forward and summoned Fenrir with Visne already out as well as Vexxitiz, he has summoned six summons. He could only summon one more before his system prevented any more. Luckily he had yet to cleanse the armor for another summon. But he did have Thane, which seemed to be drawn from a different page of Summons.
With this he called Thane out as well to help dispatch this creature. The four eyed and mouthed dinosaur squealed at him and the summons. While it was distracted by the sudden attack from its flank, having turned around allowed Visne to come out of hiding and splash the creature in a cone of its goo.
Cyrus heard it whine in pain as Visne had lashed the creature with its tail causing it to slowly bleed. Now that he was close he could see the strength of the creature. It appeared just over the squirming beast, which made Cyrus swallow hard.
[WARNING!]
[Alpha lvl 4: Mutilamposaurus]
[Creature is of the second highest grade of Alpha Tier, recommended level to fight: 32]
When Cyrus saw the system put a recommended fighting strength, caused him to stop in his tracks. The moment he did, he saw the creatures maw within inches of his face. It's neck, stretched to strike at him and the group of summons. One who wasn't lucky was Fenrir. For Fenrir got snapped up by its jaws and was trapped in its mouth. The notifications of Fenrir's health depleting rapidly was cause for worry.
Out stretching his right hand he recalled Fenrir, which cause the creature to spit out flames from the splits of its mouth. Fenrir managed to survive with only a couple HP left. This was a creature Cyrus wasn't ready to fight. With that, Cyrus used the only thing that could get him out and away from the creature. He lifted up his left hand and used the Radiant Light spell.
A small white light orb floated from his palm and rose a couple inches off his hand. Then it burst into a bright light causing the creature to flinch and scratch at its eyes. Cyrus decided to unsummon all his companions as he ran towards the forest. He Enhanced his speed to give him more movement to put as much space between that creature and himself. He cursed at himself for allowing Fenrir to take such substantial damage, but he had to focus on moving forward and not looking back.